Mysupermarket closing - alternatives?

drspa44

Regarding the website that cannot be mentioned, you can find it, among other alternatives on Google with:

compare grocery prices and multibuy offers

DisablednProud

Rosa_Damascena said:

DisablednProud said:

Markinblackpool said:

Just found this alternative yesterday.... Seems good..... 
trolley.co.uk/

Just came here to mention this ... so glad an alternative has popped up! Hope this one doesn't get bought out by the supermarket industry too, lol!

Is that what happened? Was MySupermarket too big a threat to the Big 4?

It's pure speculation. But it really doesn't make sense that a multimillion pound business would just get pulled overnight with no warning, and the only explanation being that it was to focus on 'other business'. Their main investors since 2012 were WPP Plc. who work as a major British advertising/PR firm who most likely has relationships with the major supermarkets.

Worth noting, that at exact same time this website was pulled (March 2020) the Amazon price comparison website CamelCamelCamel.com was also taken down for a period 2 months because Amazon blocked the API allowing them to track product pricing. Both of these closures coincided with the 'panic buying' stage of the pandemic, when there was a lot of price gouging going on, and I remember as a consumer it was quite frustrating not being able to compare prices during the one time when it was most needed!

A lot of people blamed this on Amazon trying to hide the price gouging going on on their site during the pandemic, where a lot of essential items on the site suddenly increased in price.

The theory was that a similar thing happened with MySupermarket, the supermarkets either blocked price tracking or bought them out, or both. Since March 2020 we have definitely seen an increase in supermarket prices and it seems like the perfect way to hide that.

TLDR: Shop at Aldi. It's cheaper than all these places.

maman

I only use a site comparison site for the few occasions I want a branded non perishable product that I can stock up on. I'm fortunate that I have all supermarkets (except Morrison's) near enough that the fuel price doesn't outweigh any saving. 🤣

Otherwise it's Aldi. 😁

Doc_N

DisablednProud said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

DisablednProud said:

Markinblackpool said:

Just found this alternative yesterday.... Seems good..... 
trolley.co.uk/

Just came here to mention this ... so glad an alternative has popped up! Hope this one doesn't get bought out by the supermarket industry too, lol!

Is that what happened? Was MySupermarket too big a threat to the Big 4?

It's pure speculation. But it really doesn't make sense that a multimillion pound business would just get pulled overnight with no warning, and the only explanation being that it was to focus on 'other business'. Their main investors since 2012 were WPP Plc. who work as a major British advertising/PR firm who most likely has relationships with the major supermarkets.

Worth noting, that at exact same time this website was pulled (March 2020) the Amazon price comparison website CamelCamelCamel.com was also taken down for a period 2 months because Amazon blocked the API allowing them to track product pricing. Both of these closures coincided with the 'panic buying' stage of the pandemic, when there was a lot of price gouging going on, and I remember as a consumer it was quite frustrating not being able to compare prices during the one time when it was most needed!

A lot of people blamed this on Amazon trying to hide the price gouging going on on their site during the pandemic, where a lot of essential items on the site suddenly increased in price.

The theory was that a similar thing happened with MySupermarket, the supermarkets either blocked price tracking or bought them out, or both. Since March 2020 we have definitely seen an increase in supermarket prices and it seems like the perfect way to hide that.

TLDR: Shop at Aldi. It's cheaper than all these places.

That all sounds a little far fetched, a little too much of a conspiracy theory.  There's no evidence to support that - far more likely that it was impossible to monetise the site sufficiently to cover its operational costs.

ChukkleOdeon

Just found trolley.co.uk, why is another alternative not allowed to be mentioned or where was it mentioned and then deleted?

elsien

I believe the person who posted the other option was self-promoting which breaks forum rules. 

ChukkleOdeon

Ah ok, then it should be ok for me to mention it, assuming it's the same one...

Trolley.co.uk cover more shops:

• Aldi
• Asda
• B&M
  
• Boots
• Co-op
• Home Bargains
• Iceland
• Morrisons
• Sainsbury's
• Tesco
• Waitrose
• Wilko

Priceable.co.uk just cover:

• Asda
• Morrisons
• Ocado
• Sainsbury's
• Tesco

Both lack Amazon, can't remember did MySupermarket cover Amazon?

Doc_N

ChukkleOdeon said:

Ah ok, then it should be ok for me to mention it, assuming it's the same one...

Trolley.co.uk cover more shops:

• Aldi
• Asda
• B&M
  
• Boots
• Co-op
• Home Bargains
• Iceland
• Morrisons
• Sainsbury's
• Tesco
• Waitrose
• Wilko

Priceable.co.uk just cover:

• Asda
• Morrisons
• Ocado
• Sainsbury's
• Tesco

Both lack Amazon, can't remember did MySupermarket cover Amazon?

Priceable looks interesting, for its layout, but without the two other major online grocery retailers (Waitrose and Iceland) it’s of very limited value.

VoucherMan

I'm feeling rebellious this morning, so I'm going to mention Shelfscraper  again. It is after all a money saving app, which should be ideal for a money saving site.

It's not my site & I have no connection to the person who created it, other than to thank them for their efforts. I just find it a useful extra for comparing sites.

Just a tip for anyone who's going to try it. It only works on matching text, so you need to spell correctly. You can expand the results a bit by adding a star*, so cake* would find both cake & cakes

It also misses some results, so by no means perfect. (search for birds custard & there's no Sainsbury's in the list, at least not when I use a PC web browser)

And for yet another negative for some people, it only covers a limited ranges of stores. I think it's

• Aldi
  
• Asda
• Morrisons
• Sainsbury's (for some reason a lot of their results are missed)
  
• Tesco

drspa44

VoucherMan said:

I'm feeling rebellious this morning, so I'm going to mention Shelfscraper  again. It is after all a money saving app, which should be ideal for a money saving site.

It's not my site & I have no connection to the person who created it, other than to thank them for their efforts. I just find it a useful extra for comparing sites.

Just a tip for anyone who's going to try it. It only works on matching text, so you need to spell correctly. You can expand the results a bit by adding a star*, so cake* would find both cake & cakes

It also misses some results, so by no means perfect. (search for birds custard & there's no Sainsbury's in the list, at least not when I use a PC web browser)

And for yet another negative for some people, it only covers a limited ranges of stores. I think it's

• Aldi
  
• Asda
• Morrisons
• Sainsbury's (for some reason a lot of their results are missed)
  
• Tesco

Thanks for the mention. I have not really been maintaining it in the last month, and all of the prices are a week out of date. Recently Sainsburys is actively trying to block me from checking their prices and I have not invested any time into countering that.  If only Trolley or Priceable had a way of sorting by price, I would feel comfortable shutting off Shelfscraper. It was only meant to last a few months whilst MySupermarket was resurrected!